Sometimes, it’s possible to contact the merchant directly via your affiliates’ page or other means to ask for a review or complimentary copy. Some vendors are quite welcoming of beginners, but you should still be prepared to explain why you deserve a free product. Talk up your platform, passion for the niche in question, and how you plan to promote the merchant’s items.
True to its name, Amazon offers everything under the sun. Choose from over a million products to advertise to your customers. Whether you are a large network, content site or blogger, we have simple linking tools to meet your advertising needs and help you monetize your web site. You don’t need to be a web master or developer to take advantage of our tools. Simply cut-and-paste to link to the desired products, popular categories, favorites, best sellers, search-results pages, and banners – there are millions of options.
Hi Jamie, awesome content that is very helpful esp with the resources, links and the rich discussions. Want to start e-commerce and blog for money…selling others products, want to go full on with this, tired of the daily routine crunch working for others. I live in a developing country (PNG) that has high internet costs (work still in progress with getting rates down…) so will see how I go with your posts. Any advise? Don’t have a website yet, have to build one I guess….

One of the basics of product promotion. You can write about your product as freely as you want as long as your website contains or features a blog. You can write about your product reviews or create infographics that readers can share in their plugins. You can also write tutorials as this one of the latest trends in creating new content. In case you don’t write at all, you can also invite a guest post writer that can help you with your product promotion or be a guest post writer yourself if you are up for it. Anything is possible with blogging these days!

What do you want to earn? Is this just a little bit of side income on your hobby blog or are you trying to replace your full time income? If you’re trying to go big then you’re going to want to focus on more high-quality products with big commissions. Maybe you will be building your site or blog around the specific product you want to promote, like a product review or comparison site.

Hey there, I’m Mahesh (@maheshone). I started learning and doing and experimenting web 2.0 stuff back in 2004 and eventually became a full-time computer nerd after graduation. Minterest is a digital marketing and technology journal that I founded in 2007 to feed my super curiosity (oh yeah, I’m a solo-blogger). I write about tech, marketing, and everything in between that excites me. And I love to work with small businesses to help them get the most out of the web. Outside of that, I'm equally passionate about the financial markets and I also spend a lot of time doing random things (see random facts about me). Say hi: @maheshone. Read More »Another way to make money from a website or blog is affiliate marketing. This is a form of performance-based marketing, in which you must direct customers to a retailer’s website by promoting products on your own site and linking to the retailer’s product sale page. Whenever a consumer clicks on one of your links and makes a purchase, you earn a commission – usually between 15% and 20% of the total price. Some companies, such as Amazon and eBay, make affiliate marketing deals directly with publishers; others work through middleman sites such as Commission Junction, ShareASale, or the Rakuten Affiliate Marketing Program.
Again, there are many other software brands that chose to keep their affiliate programs in-house, and the above list represents only a few of the top brands that do so. To find the platform choice of your favorite brand (be it a network or their “in-house” one) just look in their website’s footer or search for their affiliate program using your preferred search engine.

When promoting affiliate offers, just make sure you are fully aware of all the terms and conditions attached to your affiliate program. Some programs can be strict about how they allow you to promote their products. For example, some may limit you to banner ads and links only, while others will allow you to use paid advertising, but won't allow email marketing.